Build problems

[ConfidantCommunications]

I am attempting to build the ufront-hello project, using the instructions on Git.

I get to the "./setupDev" part and it fails. There is no setupDev script there.
Well whatever, I say— I had it installed before so I continue with the other stuff.

I get to "cd submodules/hello" and it fails because that doesn't exist either.

From the text I assume that this part was intended to build ufront-hello. I had cloned that manually before, so I continue the instructions using those files.

In the past I ran into problems and was advised to used the git versions of the libraries. So now I have the git versions of all ufront libraries active in my haxelib. When I attempt to ufront build, first it complains of Error parsing haxelib.json for ufront@git: [file_contents,/usr/lib/haxe/lib/ufront/git/haxelib.json]
So I grabbed that from a different version in the haxelib ufront folder and removed the versions of the dependencies.

Then I build and it says Library ufront version git does not have a run script so I had to copy the run.n file also.

Then to avoid errors about having two versions installed, I had to also remove all versions from the haxelib.json files in ufront-easyauth.

Now when I compile I get:
/usr/lib/haxe/lib/ufront-mvc/1,1,0/src/ufront/api/UFAsyncApi.hx:94: lines 94-174 : Missing return tink.Surprise<_makeApiCall.A, tink.TypedError<ufront.remoting.RemotingError<_makeApiCall.B>>>
/usr/lib/haxe/lib/ufront-mvc/1,1,0/src/ufront/web/result/CallJavascriptResult.hx:99: characters 16-24 : Unknown identifier : document
/usr/lib/haxe/lib/ufront-mvc/1,1,0/src/ufront/web/result/CallJavascriptResult.hx:105: characters 15-30 : Array access is not allowed on {+ length : Int }
/usr/lib/haxe/lib/ufront-mvc/1,1,0/src/ufront/web/result/CallJavascriptResult.hx:106: characters 17-25 : Unknown identifier : document
/usr/lib/haxe/lib/ufront-mvc/1,1,0/src/ufront/web/result/CallJavascriptResult.hx:112: characters 4-12 : Unknown identifier : document
/usr/lib/haxe/lib/ufront-mvc/1,1,0/src/ufront/web/result/CallJavascriptResult.hx:113: characters 4-12 : Unknown identifier : document
Failed to build client.hxml, server.hxml

[ConfidantCommunications]

Okay, keeping in mind that I had to hand-edit the haxelib.json files to remove dependencies on easyauth 1.0.0, I finally got it to build with these settings:
tink_core: 1.0.0-rc.10 1.0.0-rc.11 1.0.0-rc.12 1.0.0-rc.6 1.0.0-rc.7 1.0.0-rc.8 [git] tink_macro: 0.5.0 0.6.3 0.6.4 0.8.1 [git] ufront-client: [2.0.0] git ufront-easyauth: 1.0.0 1.0.0-rc.10 1.0.0-rc.3 [git] ufront-mail: 1.0.0-rc.4 1.0.0-rc.5 [git] ufront-mvc: 1.0.0-rc.15 1.0.0-rc.17 1.0.0-rc.3 1.0.0-rc.4 1.0.0-rc.5 [1.1.0] git ufront-orm: 1.0.0-rc.11 1.0.0-rc.2 1.0.0-rc.5 1.1.0 [git] ufront-ufadmin: 1.0.0-beta.11 1.0.0-beta.6 [git] ufront-uftasks: 1.0.0-beta.13 1.0.0-beta.7 [git] ufront: 1.0.0-rc.13 1.0.0-rc.2 [2.0.0] git utest: 1.3.10 1.3.2 1.3.3 [1.4.1]

ufront-hello is on commit 6fb0c7b

Testing the build in both PHP and Neko, I get a home page but clicking a name returns a lengthy remoting API message. Disabling Javascript makes things work better.

So with ufront-hello and ufront in general, I am seeing these problems:

• the instructions for ufront-hello don't match the files provided
• the dependencies in haxelib cause problems
• even after compiling I'm having remoting errors

Is there any way we can package all of UFront along with Tink and do releases that are almost guaranteed to work out of the box?

[kevinresol]

this hello example is a bit outdated. please have a look at https://github.com/kevinresol/ufront-nodejs-guide

[ConfidantCommunications]

Thanks, I actually have been spending some good quality time there recently. :)